Great song! Who are the guys that sing it? I wonder if any secular radio stations will play it?
Darlene
____________________ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. II Corinthians 13:14
They're the Go Fish Guys. As far as secular radio stations playing it....well, if we bombard them with emails and calls, maybe so. The atheists and secularists are "loud and proud" maybe we need to turn up the volume some, too?
Perhaps most of you already know this but (I seem to be the last to find out things) but I heard on TV that the word "Christmas" originated hundreds of years after Christ was crucified.
Midnight masses started being held and became known as "Christ's Mass." And that is where the word Christmas originated.
DavidVS wrote: Perhaps most of you already know this but (I seem to be the last to find out things) but I heard on TV that the word "Christmas" originated hundreds of years after Christ was crucified.
Midnight masses started being held and became known as "Christ's Mass." And that is where the word Christmas originated.
I wonder how many Protestants know this?
My former pastor used a Way of the Cross that was really quite meditative. At each of the stations, there was a reflection as though it had been written by Jesus, and a response. After the stations are complete, "Jesus" says: "It is finished. My mass is complete."
The first time I heard that, I was floored. Yes, I know that the mass is Jesus made present, but I had never thought of the Sacrifice of the Cross as the first Sacrifice of the Mass!
And then recently in another thread, we came up with the phrase, "Mary Christ Mass". Because in God's plan of salvation, without Mary there would be no Christ, and without Christ there would be no mass!!
And that will be my Christmas prayer. Mary Christ Mass!
The manger and the cross stand at two extremities of the Saviour's life! He accepted the manger because there was no room in the inn; He accepted the cross because men said, "We will not have this Man for our king." Disowned upon entering,rejected upon leaving, He was laid in a stranger's stable at the beginning, and a stranger's grave at the end.
An ox and an ass surrounded His crib at Bethlehem; two thieves were to flank His Cross on Calvary. He was wrapped in swaddling bands in His birthplace; He was again laid in swaddling clothes in His tomb--clothes symbolic of the limitations imposed on His Divinitywhen He took human form.
He was already bearing His Cross--only a Babe could bear, a cross of poverty, exile and limitation. His sacrificial intent already shone forth in the message the angels sang to the hills of Bethlehem; "Today in the City of David a deliverer has been born to you- the messiah, the Lord." Luke 2:11
From the "Life of Christ" by Fulton J. Sheen
This is printed on the card that Father Shane hands out to us as we leave the confessional. I received mine last night. It reminded me of what you wrote, Caj. I guess in a way, His Mass began at his birth, knowing how many would reject His Mass. Happy are we who are called to His supper and believe! Isn't that a great miracle? The gift of faith...what a gift this Christmas, from our Lord to us and from us to Him. For when He comes again, his one question was..."Will I find faith on the earth?" Your prayer, Caj, is also my prayer and may it be the prayer of all of us for it is beautiful.
Mary Christ Mass!
____________________ God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter.
